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Happy New Year!! With the two weeks around Christmas and New Year’s coming to an end, our “sleepy little town” is looking forward to a little break in the action before the next weekend rolls around. We haven’t seen the final numbers yet, but for those of us who have lived up here for a significant amount of time can …Continue reading →

Hi folks! Here are last month’s Big Bear Real Estate statistics. As of this morning, the inventory has dropped to 447 single-family residences in the Big Bear MLS, along with a handful of condos. If you click on the link for the MLS, you’ll see that we switched our idx providers to a more user-friendly search that can be selected …Continue reading →

It’s that time of year already! Snow Summit opens tomorrow and Bear Mountain is scheduled to open for weekends only until Dec.7th, starting next Friday. Below are last month’s Big Bear real estate statistics. It was a busy month for what is usually one of the slower months of the year, but keep in mind that most of the listings …Continue reading →

With the beautiful color of changing leaves and our first dusting of snow at the higher elevations last weekend, it’s definitely beginning to feel like fall in Big Bear! As we normally mention at this time of year, we are at the point where inventory is still relatively high (503 single-family residences in the Big Bear MLS) and activity drops …Continue reading →

Hi folks, Below are the Big Bear real estate numbers for the last full month of summer. Even though summer is almost over, the market is remaining hot, with the busiest September we can remember in our 11 years as Realtors up here. They are always adding more events so that spring and fall aren’t as slow as they were …Continue reading →

Below are the monthly Big Bear real estate single family residence statistics for the month of July. The inventory appears to have reached it’s peak for the year. We were at 537 single family residences last Monday and 540 this Monday. Since most sellers put their properties on the market at the beginning of the season, there are usually much …Continue reading →

As we rapidly approach the beginning of our summer selling season (usually right around the 4th of July), here are the Big Bear single-family residence stats for last month. As of this morning, the Big Bear MLS residential inventory is at 474 active properties on the market. As usual, many sellers put their houses on the market in the Spring …Continue reading →

With the summer season quickly approaching, I thought I would send out a quick breakdown of the properties that have sold so far, since the beginning of the year. As usual, the vast majority of homes sold were in the $500K and under range. That’s usually the range that most people are able to afford for a second home and …Continue reading →

Even with the low inventory, the sales machine keeps chugging along, with further increases in sales price, especially closer to the slopes. As of this morning, the current inventory of single family residences in the Big Bear MLS still sits at only 286 homes on the market. This has lead to a lower total number of sales with quite a …Continue reading →

We hope you’re having a great year so far! Sorry we haven’t sent out any emails yet this year, but we’ve been in Hawaii for the last 6 weeks “tending to” some vacation rentals that we own out that way. With the inventory being as low as it has been in Big Bear, we figured it was a good time …Continue reading →

Here are last month’s statistics for the Big Bear Real Estate market. The inventory has continued to drop and, as of this morning, there are only 309 Single Family Residences left on the market! This is lower than we typically see even at the lowest point of the year (in Spring). At this rate, I wouldn’t be surprised if it …Continue reading →

Hi folks! As we are almost up to the beginning of the Holiday Season, we are down to only 342 Single-family residences left on the market in the Big Bear MLS. As we have discussed in the past, the inventory normally starts to drop after summer, but when combined with the finalization of the Aspen acquisition of our local resorts …Continue reading →

It’s been a little while because we were gone last month on a cross-country trip to visit family, but here are the most recent statistics for Big Bear real estate single family sales. Since the acquisition of our local resorts by Aspen was finalized in early August, our inventory has dropped over 35%! There are only 392 single family residences …Continue reading →

Hi folks! Here are the monthly stats for Big Bear real estate for the month of July. Sales prices continue to rise and are expected to do so even more, especially with the recent purchase of our local resorts by Aspen/KSL. Below is a link to an interesting graph from Trulia, which shows that, in Big Bear Lake (92315), the …Continue reading →

As summer kicks into full gear, we are currently at 538 Single family residences on the market. Last month, there were a total of 147 sold properties and another 207 in escrow (Pending/Back-up). As prices continue to rise closer to the Lake and slopes, the more distant areas are increasing even more, with Big Bear City averaging more than $200/sqft …Continue reading →